Brooklyn Bridge Movies With a View 2009 theme is Stolen Summer -- featuring a series of movies about capers, thrillers and heists. Music begins at 6 p.m. and the movies will start at sundown (about 8-8:30 p.m.)
All movie screenings take place in the Brooklyn Bridge Park which is easily accessible via subway, water taxi and car.
Thursday, July 9
Raising Arizona
Ex-con Hi and ex-cop Ed need just one thing to complete their marital bliss - a baby. The solution? Swipe someone else's! Nicholas Cage and Holly Hunter make baby-snatching funny again in this cult classic of kidnapping, scheming and hilarious capers.
Thursday, July 16
The Maltese Falcon
Hard-drinking, swaggering P.I. Sam Spade gets entangled in a wide web of plotting to steal a foot-high, jewel-encrusted statuette worth a fortune. Dames, gumshoes and nefarious schemers abound in this film noir classic, based on Dashiell Hammet's novel of the same name. Featuring Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George and Peter Lorre.
Thursday, July 23
Paper Moon
It's 1936 and orphaned Addie and con man Moses are quite the pair of scam artists, swindling their way through Kansas and Missouri selling Bibles to widows. Yes, Bibles. To widows. Father and daughter team Ryan and Tatum O'Neal star in this gem of a picture, for which 10-year old Tatum nabbed an Oscar.
Thursday, July 30
To Catch A Thief
John Robie, a reformed cat burglar, is on the case of copycat criminal ruining his chances of being left alone. Hoping to prove his innocence and return to his lush Riviera lifestyle, Robie (Cary Grant) enlists the help of an American heiress (Grace Kelly) in this Hitchcock classic.
Thursday, August 6
The Return Of The Pink Panther
Inspector Clouseau is back on the case! The Pink Panther diamond has been hesited again and the dim-witted detective once more unfailingly bumbles his way through assassination attempts, government cover-ups and grand conspiracies to catch the thief.
Thursday, August 13
Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid
When you're trapped in a tight spot, with the entire Bolivian army ready to take you in - or out - it's nice to know you have friends. Paul Newman and Robert Redford are bank robbers who discover that running away from your problems isn't always the answer in this classic buddy picture.
Thursday, August 20
Catch Me If You Can
Frank Abagnale, Jr. (Leonardo DiCaprio) wanted to live the high life and he wasn't going to let a little thing like money get in his way. FBI agent Carl Hanratty (Tom Hanks) pursues the true-life criminal mastermind around the world as Abagnale proves - over and over - if you want something in life, you just have to take it.
Thursday, August 27
Edward Scissorhands
In a classic tale of "Who gets the girl?" Jim, the high school football star, is pitted against Edward, the andriod with hands made of scissors. Out of his element in the scrubbed-clean suburbs, Edward proves that even a man with fingers as sharp as razors can gently capture the heart of a teenage girl.
